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S. 613 — Improving Flood and Agricultural Forecasts Act of 2025

5%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate on_calendar

Improving Flood and Agricultural Forecasts Act — on the calendar, quiet for 228 days; 18% to reach the floor, 5% to become law.

18%
reaches a floor vote
×
99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
26%
survives downstream
=
5%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 61% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 18% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 69 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 43–96 (quartiles 55–85). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 61% (simple-majority P = 92%).

By floor procedure

No vote is scheduled, so the headline marginalizes over how the Senate would take it up; the branches:

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
conference5% 72 [49–97] 94%
passage95% 68 [43–96] 92%

Receipts

Sponsor: Brian Schatz (D). Latest action (2025-10-21): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 194.
Full record: Congress.gov.

Forecast run predict-20260606T193507Z · models member-vote-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 + passage-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 · conditional whip forecasts for the Senate run at moderate confidence (why).